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In a month I will be updating this blog regularly because I will be taking summer classes. After the contest I abondanded on updates because I really had no more design work, I have just been working, relaxing and painting watercolor paintings.

This is a blog to show you the way I approach my designs and also to help me grow as an architecture student. I love feedback, even if you disagree with my process or design approach. When you, my followers, post feedback I get a different perspective and your feedback helps an emense amount.

With that being said is there anything you would like to see on this blog?

It seems to be that even while school is over I have adapted to function under less than six hours a sleep a night regularly.  I am now spending my time drawing late into the night, also, I find that being a good artist is an essential component in becoming a great architect.  I feel this is true because artists tend to have the eye for design/composition whether it be in a drawing, painting, rendering, or board layout.  Being an artist also gives us a leg up on color selection, being that I have worked with colors, read about colors, experimented with colors gives me the experience that I feel is needed to bring a structure together.  

With me I am a stickler when it comes to board layout, I change my boards twenty times before coming to my final layout but in that process I keep all of my previous layout designs saved under a different name, I do this because can take elements out of these failed layouts and incorporate them into my final board or I come back around to the old layouts and reevaluate what was my process behind this idea after not seeing the board for a day or so, things tend to become bland after looking at the same layout for hours on end.  In the end I feel that this process works well for me because I had the time to look at the juxtaposition of the board, tweak or completely change it to my liking loving and come out with a well developed board design.  As an artist I tend to pay attention to the small detail and being an artist has helped me understand the process of doing projects in studio tenfold.   

Another finished render from our project for the contest, the result for the winners will be on the 15 of june. 

Another finished render from our project for the contest, the result for the winners will be on the 15 of june. 

Process from the sketchup model to the kerkythea exported render to my post process work in photoshop.

Here is the process of where I am at right now, still some editing to do or I might just redo the whole render because the open space in the background is ugly.  

Platform: Mac

Made with: Sketchup

Rendered with: Kerkythea

Editing with: Photoshop

This is where we are at in the project right now, The main sculpture has the base design and we have the green features which include the wind lemon and the solar branches from the sculpture.  On top of the sculpture we are planning on placing two lemon and the legs of the sculpture will change with the landscape as we get further into the design.

For the next step I took the hand render and imported that into sketchup then scaled it to the size of the actual site.  After getting drawing to fit pretty close to the actual site I then started using grid lines with the protractor (my hand line are going to have error so I wanted to have perfect angles)

To make sure I was drawing on the right plane I unglued the sketch to the site and this automatically dropped the sketch to the bottom.  From here I turned the opacity down on the site to have the sketch show up through the bottom.  

I expected my lines not to match up on the actual site and that is exactly what happened but I am happy with the result of the computer lines.  The only change I made was one of the walkways was too thin so I beefed it up from 3’ to 10’

Main Walkways - Red

Landscaping - Green

Structure/Sculpture - Light Brown

Here is a sketch I am proposing for the site, lets see how my teammate likes it.  
The basis for the design is that this site will be based off the angles of 30, 60, and 90, the origin for the grid is every corner I will place the grid lines there.  
Tis design works well with this site because when I lightly drew the lines the high traffic area was the perfect spot for the main focal point. 
The shaded areas are the main pathways and spaces I feel will work well with the site.  Placing the sculpture in that spot gave me the greatest area for expansion of the structures components throughout the site to make the whole site work as one.  
Much to do this weekend but I feel this will be the site design with some changes of course.  

Here is a sketch I am proposing for the site, lets see how my teammate likes it.  

The basis for the design is that this site will be based off the angles of 30, 60, and 90, the origin for the grid is every corner I will place the grid lines there.  

Tis design works well with this site because when I lightly drew the lines the high traffic area was the perfect spot for the main focal point. 

The shaded areas are the main pathways and spaces I feel will work well with the site.  Placing the sculpture in that spot gave me the greatest area for expansion of the structures components throughout the site to make the whole site work as one.  

Much to do this weekend but I feel this will be the site design with some changes of course.  

What my day consisted of today, before I started working on my statics homework, I got to get a little painting in.  

What my day consisted of today, before I started working on my statics homework, I got to get a little painting in.  

 Hay Harold Contest

Some rough sketch ideas for the site drawing in my moleskin book